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S. 976 (106th)

Youth Drug and Mental Health Services Act

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Introduced

6 May 1999

Last action

12 November 1999 · Referred

Status

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

Sponsors

Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN], Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA], Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT], Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT], Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH], Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD], Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME], Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]

Subjects

Healthcare, Housing, Transport, Taxation, Education

Source updated

3 June 2026

Healthcare · Housing · Transport · Taxation · Education

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Summary

Youth Drug and Mental Health Services Act - Title I: Provisions Relating to Services for Children and Adolescents - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) with regard to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Administration) to provide for a program to assist local communities in developing ways to assist children in dealing with violence. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to public and non-profit private entities for: (1) establishing a national as well as regional centers of excellence on psychological trauma response; and (2) developing knowledge with regard to evidence-based practices for treating psychiatric disorders resulting from witnessing or experiencing such stress. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary to make noncompetitive grants to, or contracts or cooperative agreements with, public entities to address emergency substance abuse or mental health needs in local communities. (Sec. 104) Reauthorizes and extends prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation model projects for high risk youth. (Sec. 105) Replaces provisions for outpatient treatment programs and postpartum women with grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for projects to provide substance abuse and mental health treatment for children and adolescents. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 106) Reauthorizes and extends the grant program for comprehensive community mental health services to children with serious emotional disturbances, with an increase in maximum grant duration from five to six fiscal years. (Sec. 107) Reauthorizes and extends the grant program for providing services to children of substance abusers. Transfers responsibility for the program from the Health Resources and Services Administration to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for training health, substance abuse, and mental health professionals and other specified providers of services to children and families. Requires grant recipients which are Medicaid providers to identify children who may be eligible for medical assistance under Medicaid or the State's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Requires a grant recipient to make available to such children drug and alcohol early intervention, treatment, and prevention services. Requires services for affected families to include: (1) aggressive outreach to family members with substance abuse problems; and (2) consumers in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the Family Services Plan. Repeals the mandate for peer review of grant applications. (Sec. 108) Requires the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to ensure that emphasis is placed on children and adolescents in the development of treatment programs, among other changes in organizational and general provisions. Title II: Provisions Relating to Mental Health - Replaces grant programs for demonstration projects with projects for priority mental health needs of regional and national significance. Directs the Secretary to establish related information dissemination and education programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 202) Reauthorizes and extends the grant program for developing and expanding mental health and substance abuse treatment services for homeless individuals. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Secretary to waive requirements for projects for assistance in transition from homelessness with respect to the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Reauthorizes and extends formula grants to States for programs for individuals suffering from serious mental illness or substance abuse and for the homeless. (Sec. 204) Revises the criteria for State plans for grants for comprehensive community mental health services for certain individuals, as well as application deadlines. Reauthorizes and extends the program of formula block grants for community mental health services and treatment of mental illness and substance abuse. (Sec. 205) Makes permanent at the level it received for FY 1998 the minimum formula grant allotment of any State for its plan for comprehensive community mental health services for certain individuals. (Currently, such level applies only with respect to FY 1999). (Sec. 206) Renames the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986 as the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act. Includes as an individual with mental illness one who otherwise meets certain current criteria but lives in a community setting or at home. Authorizes an eligible system (established in a State to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities) to represent an individual with a mental illness only if: (1) its total allotment is $30 million or more; and (2) it gives priority to representing such individuals. Revises an eligible system's minimum allotment, with different specified base amounts for States and for certain territories. Specifies a trigger level of total appropriations at which the Secretary must make an allotment to the eligible system serving the American Indian consortium. Reauthorizes and extends allotments for use in eligible protection and advocacy systems for mentally ill individuals. Title III: Provisions Relating to Substance Abuse - Replaces provisions on residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women with provisions on priority substance abuse treatment needs of regional and national significance. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 303) Repeals the requirement that funding agreements specify certain minimum State expenditures for prevention and treatment activities regarding alcohol and other drugs. Changes from mandatory to discretionary a State's authority to establish a revolving fund to support group homes for recovering substance abusers. Authorizes the Secretary, upon a State's request, to waive requirements with regard to substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant allocations regarding pregnant women and women with dependent children, treatment of intravenous substance abuse, tuberculosis services and HIV early intervention services, and specified kinds of additional agreements. Reauthorizes and extends appropriations. (Sec. 304) Revises the formula for minimum State allotments of block grants for preventing and treating substance abuse, and makes it permanent. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Flexibility and Accountability - Changes the mandate for an Associate Director for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment Policy to an option. Revises peer review requirements, eliminating those for regulations promulgated pursuant to peer review provisions. (Sec. 402) Reduces from three times a year to twice a year the minimum number of times each fiscal year that specified advisory councils on mental health services and substance abuse treatment must meet. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary in conjunction with States and other interested groups to develop separate plans for performance partnerships for creating more flexibility among the States and outcome-based accountability for programs for pregnant addicts and for programs for emotionally disturbed children and mentally ill adults. Makes grant payments to States available for obligation and expenditure through the fiscal year following the one for which the payments were made. Repeals the special treatment of grant amounts in the case of a State which has terminated or reduced financial assistance to noncompliant subgrantees. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or contracts or cooperative agreements with, States to develop and operate mental health or substance abuse data collection analysis and reporting systems (data infrastructure development) with regard to performance measures including capacity, process, and outcomes measures. Authorizes appropriations.

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Timeline

  1. 6 May 1999

    Introduced

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 6 May 1999

    Introduced

    Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4892-4895)

    Source: IntroReferral

  3. 6 May 1999

    Introduced

    Introduced in Senate

    Source: IntroReferral

  4. 28 July 1999

    Reported

    Committee on HELP. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

    Source: Committee

  5. 19 October 1999

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.

    Source: Calendars

  6. 19 October 1999

    Reported

    Committee on HELP. Reported to Senate by Senator Jeffords with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-196. Additional views filed.

    Source: Committee

  7. 19 October 1999

    Reported

    Committee on HELP. Reported to Senate by Senator Jeffords with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 106-196. Additional views filed.

    Source: Committee

  8. 3 November 1999

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S13845-13861)

    Source: Floor

  9. 3 November 1999

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: Floor

  10. 4 November 1999

    Introduced

    Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.

    Source: IntroReferral

  11. 4 November 1999

    Floor

    Message on Senate action sent to the House.

    Source: Floor

  12. 4 November 1999

    Floor

    Received in the House.

    Source: Floor

  13. 12 November 1999

    Referred

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

    Source: Committee

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